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Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.3, June-July 2003 (ICPSR 4055)

Principal Investigator(s):
European Commission. Directorates-General Press and Communication, ICT and Gender, Justice and Home Affairs, and Health and Consumer Protection

Summary:

The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first
conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to
become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct
comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the
existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the
European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences
between the EU and the candidate countries. The CCEB continuously
tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes
in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries.
This round of the CCEB surveys was conducted between June 16 and July
18, 2003, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on such
topics as the importance of the EU, national decision-making policies
of the EU, statements on EU policies, particularly foreign and defense
policies, EU policy priorities, the EU's role in the world and in
relation to the United States, information and communication
technology, safety in Europe, immigration and asylum issues, EU
citizen rights, and services of general interest (e.g., mobile
telephone, electricity supply, gas supply, water supply, postal, and
transport). Background variables include nationality, marital status,
level of education, age, number of people living in household, whether
anyone in the household owned a color television set, video recorder,
video camera, automatic washing machine, dishwasher, home computer,
microwave oven, mobile phone, or two or more cars, current occupation,
whether the respondent was paid directly or indirectly by the state,
local government, or other public administration, religious
affiliation, and voting intent.

The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first
conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to
become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct
comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the
existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the
European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences
between the EU and the candidate countries. The CCEB continuously
tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes
in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries.
This round of the CCEB surveys was conducted between June 16 and July
18, 2003, in the 13 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Respondents were queried on such
topics as the importance of the EU, national decision-making policies
of the EU, statements on EU policies, particularly foreign and defense
policies, EU policy priorities, the EU's role in the world and in
relation to the United States, information and communication
technology, safety in Europe, immigration and asylum issues, EU
citizen rights, and services of general interest (e.g., mobile
telephone, electricity supply, gas supply, water supply, postal, and
transport). Background variables include nationality, marital status,
level of education, age, number of people living in household, whether
anyone in the household owned a color television set, video recorder,
video camera, automatic washing machine, dishwasher, home computer,
microwave oven, mobile phone, or two or more cars, current occupation,
whether the respondent was paid directly or indirectly by the state,
local government, or other public administration, religious
affiliation, and voting intent.

Universe:
Citizens aged 15 and over residing in the 13 countries
applying for European Union membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. There are two exceptions. In Estonia,
the survey covered permanent residents aged 15 and over. In Cyprus,
the survey only covered citizens living on the southern part of the
island.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The files included with this release of the
collection derive from the data producer, Gallup Organization Hungary
(Magyar Gallup Intezet). However, additional processing of the data
was performed at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung in
Cologne, Germany. (2) Variables with a dot "." in the name have been
replaced by an underscore "_" for technical reason. (3) The
documentation (codebook and SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files) for this
collection contains characters with diacritical marks used in many
European languages.

Methodology

Sample:
Multistage national probability samples.

Mode of Data Collection:
face-to-face interview

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 2004-09-02

Version History:

2005-12-06 The variables D3_B (Level of Education)
and D13 (Vote Intention) have been broken out into country-specific
variables. SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been revised and an
updated documentation file is available.